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development of Roman-Dutch law

...termed
consultatien or
advijsen) and in the rich juristic literature of the system. The first attempt to reduce the Roman-Dutch civil law to a system was made by Hugo Grotius in his
Introduction to the Jurisprudence of Holland, written while he was in prison in 1619–20 and published in 1631; this short treatise, a masterpiece of condensed exposition, remains a legal...